why do people believe something will happen after death?

Answer 1

Mass societal hallucination caused by hallucinogenic encounters our ancestors had and related to their offspring as truth.

Answer 2

If we are to believe Astronomers and physicists (and with their spectacles and tweed jackets we have every reason to) the universe we live in is some 8-12 billion years old.

I, on the other hand, am considerably younger. In fact I'm only now in my fourth decade. Of the several billion years that came and went before I made my entrance, the universe was born, weaned, had a stroppy adolescence in which it no doubt painted its room black, and settled into a comfortable middle age. Then I came along, looked up at the stars one night and wondered if I would live forever.

Of the events before the mid 60's, I know only what I've been told, what I've read, and what the television told me in those all too brief moments between advertisements. I have to believe that a world existed before I was there to experience it, otherwise very little makes sense. Let's face it, it's rather egotistical to think the universe exists solely for my own entertainment, and it would certainly raise some interesting questions for those people who were apparently here before me (my parents for two!). But the fact remains, I can never really know. For me the world can only exist as a certainty to my conscious mind, the rest I have to take on trust.

So where am I going with all this introspection? In spite of having no conscious experience of the millenia in which the universe has existed, it is suggested that perhaps I will live forever. But how can that be true? If it is the consciousness I now have that will exist forever, I already know that I've missed some pretty good stuff. That very fact means I am finite, how can I live forever and yet have not existed since time itself began? Perhaps this doesn't cause everyone the logical headache it is giving me, but at the very least it raises questions.

So if my consciousness will survive beyond my death, if I will live forever (and ignore that first inconvenient few billions of years) I have to ask what the deal here is? A physical existence that is noisy, confusing, exciting and over in the blink of an eye is followed by what? An infinite retirement? An eternal deckchair on a seafront with occasional trips to the putting green? What mind will I have? Will it be the mind I have now, already losing brain cells but still sharp enough to guess the odd Countdown Conundrum? Will it be the mind of an old woman, scattered memories but bearing a patina of experience? Will it be a mind that eternity can satisfy, especially cut off from all physical experience? I don't think so.

Quantum mechanics aside, every atom in our bodies has existed for those countless billions of years. Like an angry toddler kicking over a lego set, the mother of all explosions provided raw material that combined and recombined to eventually form stars, planets, potatoes, weathermen, lap top computers and me. When I die, those atoms will carry on combining and recombining, and I may find myself part of a pencil, a penguin, a nurse or a nebula. It's what vicars mean when they say ashes to ashes, and I find the thought rather comforting.

Could it be possible that something similar will happen to my mind? Perhaps it will also return to something more basic, a mental equivalent of dust to dust. Some people believe in Gaia, a philosophy that believes the world itself is conscious.

Certainly, lying in my garden at night watching the stars, it is hard not to get the impression that the universe is not looking back at you, a vast, scattered, indefinable potential consciousness. Is it from this that other individual minds will awaken, become self aware, and once again disperse to be absorbed into the whole?

I cannot say for sure, but it makes me wonder if perhaps in some way we have lived forever after all.

Answer 3

Experience has been my teacher, and I have looked into the face of God a few times in my life. I do not mean that he has a physical face like in our 3 dimensional world. This was like being washed in love and light for me. Everyone has there own stories when it comes to their spiritual path. All are very unique just as we are. I beleive I was having glimpses of the other side and a near death experience. It is nothing to fear. I would have loved to stay in that peaceful place forever.

Answer 4

Because the father of the lie, Satan, wants everyone to believe that you either go to heaven or hell or you are reincarnated or go to pergatory. Or maybe float around like a spirit and watch your loved ones cry over you. Baah-humbug!

Does anyone want the truth?

John 11 explains the resurrection of Lazarus and why it was accomplished in Jesus' prayer to the Father, God. Why can't people see that there is going to be a resurrection of the dead--if you know the Bible, there are many verses stating that the dead know nothing--they are asleep in death waiting until God calls them out of the graves--whether it be out of the water or ground, all memorial tombs will be opened and emptied. It is all explained in God's Word, the Bible.

Answer 5

Hi Riley W
People believe the things which they have been taught. However most never take time to prove or disprove the things which their parents and others teach them.
Let's get that heaven thing out of the way.

Jesus said: John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

Of all the people that have ever died, if anyone other than Jesus, had gone to heaven it would be David.

Act 2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

Act 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

Did you notice David is dead. "David is not ascended into heaven."

Notice the following, there is a resurrection of some of the dead and they were judged. That is to happen in the near future.
The rest of the dead did not live, they are not resurrected until a thousands will be finished. Also notice where those that are in the first resurrection rule. That's correct, on the earth, not in heaven.

Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Lets get rid of that hell that burns for ever and ever lie.

An Italian Florentine poet, Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or just Dante, June 1, 1265 – September 13/14, 132, created the idea of the hell that is taught to the world. Through his stage play la Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) the whole world has been and is being decived about a place that does not exist nor will it ever come into being.. The Divine Comedy describes Dante's journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). It was only a play, the works of the imagination of a man. However the Roman Catholic Church took the idea and ran with it and has long since convinced an unsuspecting world that
the writings of Dante are indeed an acurate rendition of a place of eternal punishing of all evil people. God is in total disagreement with the Catholic Church and all other that preach and teach that there is an ever burning hell, a place of eternal punishing, a place where the evil go after death.


Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day is coming, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day thats coming shall burn them up, say's the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Malachi 4:3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, say's the LORD of hosts.

Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.


There is lots more that you have been deceived or lied to about God. I'll try to catch you later, gotta eat now. Have a good night and great day tomorrow.

Answer 6

Why do people believe nothing will happen after death?

Answer 7

you can believe what you want. you can say were all stupid, and that there is nothing after death. but i'm afraid your going to have along time to think about it after we die. we will all find out eventually won't we

Answer 8

Religious beliefs. Everyone has different beliefs and I believe that after we pass on we live in the field of reeds and we can watch our loved ones and help them out. I believe I will be able to talk to them no matter how many generations come after me.

Senebty

Answer 9

It is really ridiculous that dust exists eternally, while a noble being like man perishes after the decomposition his physical form!

Answer 10

People believe what they WANT to believe.

Answer 11

Why do you not beleive? Nobody know for sure,but i know the my father who passed away last year is around us,so I know there is something after this life.I don't know what,but I guess I will find out later on.